Can I get something off my chest?

[Golden Smoghead]

I've never bought the idea that music is about math. I think it's about tension --> resolution on the technical side (e.g., how satisfying it is when a chord progression resolves).

 

Yes you can describe it with math, and you can probably use math to generate that, but for me I suspect it's about the human drive for order, and fear / fascination with disorder.

[mfwahl]

basically my point was that if all these elements of music can be broken down into little equations of what is good and what isn't - say, playing c, f and then g7 together is a very simple progression that works (making it a good musical equation), but playing c, f and then d doesn't work (making it a bad musical equation). it is then putting these equations together in these infinite different ways that makes the good music we all love, but putting it together wrong can equally produce bad music - which is where the golden mean comes in.

I agree with some of what you say, but saying that c,f,and d doesn't work makes you sound like you live in a 15th centruy cloister. Concepts of what is harmonious or dissonant evolve over time and it's about utilizing both the dissonant and harmonious, not just pleasant sounds. otherwise music would be very boring. Centuries ago the chord g7 in itslef was seen as dissonant. Now a funk band can lay just on g7 for hours and no one's ears are bleeding, so the math thing doesn't cut it for me. I understand what you're saying but our society today is too varied and complicated to claim someone's taste or distaste for music is right or wrong based on math.

[Panther]

QUOTE (One Wing @ Aug 8 2008, 02:57 PM)

From a technical standpoint, differences in the three albums:

 

YHF -- band wrote developed and recorded songs, then deconstructed them and rebuilt them using Pro Tools, adding the sonic texture and "noise"

 

AGIB -- band developed and constructed songs using Pro Tools, then broke down what they had created and figured out how to recreated organically.

 

SBS -- band created the songs together organically and recorded them. Then gave them added lift through performing live.

 

 

This is why when SBS came out I was telling people here that it

[Panther]

Okay one more thing as far as this whole backlash or w.e this is don

[lost highway]

Grammar, and defensiveness aside, I think Panther makes a great point. Yay, for still being excited!

[Golden Smoghead]

many of these opinions certainly not all read like bad pitchfork reviews

And others are barely in English. Nobody's perfect.